Example sentences of "[noun] it become a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He shook it and in one second it became a shiny top hat . |
2 | For a considerable distance it is now followed by a main road ( A422 and B4525 ) , but near Culworth it becomes a narrow lane , running through almost deserted country , past Adstone Lodge and Foxley to Cold Higham . |
3 | The approach used analysis of national income data to quantify the regulation of demand , and when the statement turned from discussion of the transition to a peacetime economy it became a standard exposition of Keynesian policy prescriptions as interpreted by the academic economists in Whitehall . |
4 | A period of decline was experienced by Chiswick House through the Crimean War also the Great War of 1914 to 1918 , and after a succession of occupants it became a private asylum for the mentally ill . |
5 | Unless , of course , all the symptoms are like that in which case it becomes a general symptom and might point towards a remedy like Ferrum phos . |
6 | One day , a tenant went out to work and found a hole in his garden ; hours later it was even bigger , and within yet more hours it became a twenty-foot pit . |
7 | It was such a simple thing , but once the straight end was threaded through the loop to make a noose it became a murderous weapon . |
8 | Within the confines of the painting it becomes a silent emblem of protest , a reminder of political alternatives . |
9 | When a man has cut down a bamboo it becomes a straight pole with a cylindrical hole down the middle , but that is not how it appears in the wild . |
10 | But it does not appear to have been regularly employed in the Royal Chancery until the last quarter of the ninth century , from which time it became a fixed element in diplomas . ’ |